Soundflavor DJ, Pandora for your computer

Posted November 22, 2006 at 10:19 PM by Adam Berger

Section: Audio, Computers, Software / Applications, Web, Downloads, Websites, Online Music/Video

Soundflavor DJ was created to help people build instant playlists, rediscover songs they’d forgotten they had and find new music. It’s based on Soundflavor’s Music Recommendation Engine that the company started building more than five years ago. They’ve analyzed half a million songs (and growing) for hundreds of characteristics to make the best music recommendations based on what someone is listening to. This isn’t just another music application. It was built in collaboration with Adaptive Path (the guys behind Blogger, Flickr, Bittorrent, etc) and based on more than six years of research. Basically, with digital music taking off, people have thousands of songs on their computers and no great way to listen to all of them (iTunes registry data shows people tend to only listen to about 20% of their collection!).

It’s a great way to build quick playlists to match a mood, activity or event – without any effort using not only internet recommendations but your own library as well. Now that I have been using it for a week I am finding myself going to Pandora when I am away from my computer to access my personalized stations but loading up Soundflavr when I am home. I can image that someone who has only a few hundred songs wouldn’t find much use for Soundflavor, but with 7,000 songs on my PC (and a whole CD book waiting to be ripped) it has really opened up my library.

Soundflavor DJ is a free download available PC only right now, but a Mac version is on the way soon.

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